Well the U.K. has.

My father in law was the commissioning engineer on this. We’ve just plugged into Norway for another GW.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-kent-58570893

I’m fond of a dial/chart/graph and an electrical engineer I used to work with pointed me to this:

https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/

I find it strangely fascinating.

I need to get an eye test…have read the title 4 times and still think it says ‘Have you ever shortened an extension lead?’ – I was going to post on here to say, no, I’ve just bought another wall socket…but it isn’t anything do do with shortening an extension lead!!!

I need to get an eye test…have read the title 4 times and still think it says ‘Have you ever shortened an extension lead?’

LOL….me too. I’m glad I’m not the only one needing an eye test.  🙂

I’m fond of a dial/chart/graph and an electrical engineer I used to work with pointed me to this:

https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/

I find it strangely fascinating.

I find this one easier to understand the exact breakdown:

https://grid.iamkate.com/

Have you ever shorted an extension lead?

and the answer is yes, went to cut the plug off one but forgot to unplug it first. My side cutters have a nice round arc hole in the blade. Made an almighty bang!

Glad I’m not the only one! I even had the little boy watching, as he loves seeing how things are done. We all learned something that day.

Thanks @Footflaps. That’s much easier to enjoy.

Knowing the current state of the country it probably wasn’t a short. It is more likely to have been someone attempting to use it at full rating with half the lead still on the drum

It’s normally the cooling oil in the expansion tanks which catches fire and causes the actual fire to burn (long after they’ve isolated the site).

Funnily enough an extension lead I made the other week tripped the RCD when I tested it. The neutral wasn’t tightened up properly.

Was an easy fix.

This one looks a bit trickier.

If only we had our own high capacity factor, low carbon generators in the UK rather than having to use another countries…

Low wind, a high number of unit outages and now this means the system is running at wager thin margins just now. One large trip and there are likely to be regional power outages. Hold onto your hats gents!

Glad I’m not the only one! I even had the little boy watching, as he loves seeing how things are done. We all learned something that day.

I vividly remember the day nearly 40 years ago that my father took a blow torch to some pipework in the kitchen without realising some previous owner had bodged a ring main extension behind it… That was loud. I learned some new words that day!

Oh knackers – 6 months. And the couple of coal fired sites remaining haven’t got any deliveries booked in because they didn’t expect to run.

Blackouts ahoy! 

This is the best website for up to date market/grid intelligence.

https://thecurrent.lcp.uk.com/

No, but I worked at a place that tried powering a server rack from a 25m cable on a roll to a 13a plug. Luckily, it tripped before it started burning from all the induction heat. Proper toasty it was…

I’m not sure the cause of the fire has actually been stated yet ?

Actually quite impressive that something like that can happen and the network still copes. Probably helped it happened at night I guess.

Not the BBC now too. PROOFREAD YOU BASTARDS.

The fire service said four crews remained at the seen “dampening down remaining hot spots” at 14:45 BST.

The UK price spread is insane!

https://thecurrent.lcp.uk.com/europe

This is the best website for up to date market/grid intelligence.

https://thecurrent.lcp.uk.com/

odd graph discontinuity:

[url=https://flic.kr/p/2mrq5XQ]Capture[/url] by Ben Freeman, on Flickr

and the answer is yes, went to cut the plug off one but forgot to unplug it first.

Read this, Immediately looked up to see the posters name expecting it to be WCA. Can’t believe it’s not

No, but I did once go long on paperclips.